14 example sentences using avuncular.
Avuncular used in a sentence
Avuncular in a sentence as an adjective
Anders H is one of the most avuncular, helpful and accessible voices out there.
It's nice to hear that his 'quirky, avuncular' side was very present in-person.
I don't really give a damn about the issue, but I want to thank the author for showing me the word "avuncular".
Gilbert Strang has this lovely patrician, avuncular energy that puts me at ease.
It sounds like it's saying something; indeed, it sounds like it's saying something wise and avuncular.
His mild, avuncular gaze gently reproaches me for not solving the problem when I had so much free time available.
When it finished they turned to me with expectant faces and I said in an avuncular manner, "This is your most important command!
We haven't even gotten into how you will put grandpa or your avuncular older neighbors or the old guy riding the bus at risk.
Quit their job, or quit their school?I also sense weakness, I was in the Marines, and my impulse is also to be tough with "weak" people, but in a avuncular helpful way, leading them to be stronger.
When dealing with the younger employees, customers often adopted an avuncular style that's used when dealing with people of the same class but different generation.
The walrus evokes a kind of avuncular humor, as well as a kind of powerful muscularity, both of which are very appealing across many demographicswell, launching with the dot net is a bit risky, but we're an internet underpinnings kind of company right?
Many native English speakers might have trouble with a few of these: abeyance, abscission, accretion, amalgamate, anodyne, antediluvian, apposite, arabesque, atavism, and avuncular.
The don't-sweat-it-you'll-be-able-to-connect-the-dots-in-hindsight approach to life is both forgiving and encouraging in an almost avuncular way, especially when you're going through a period of intense personal turmoil that accompanies rejection.
But I have also come across a few pompous avuncular brutes who would attempt to “make suggestions” which I countered with a thunderous “stet!”It seems his wife did a lot of editing:> Nabokov wrote Lolita while travelling on butterfly-collection trips in the western United States that he undertook every summer.
Avuncular definitions
resembling a uncle in kindness or indulgence
being or relating to an uncle